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Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter
Officers:
President: Margot L. Waitz, D.O.
Past-President: Lisa Barkley, M.D.
President-Elect:
Vice President: Jodi Brady-Olympia
Secretary/Treasurer: Tahniat Syed, M.D., MPH
History and Mission:
In 1974, Dr. Clyde Rapp founded the Delaware Valley Society
for Adolescent Health in recognition of the need for a local
society dedicated to the care of adolescents. Over the years,
the society evolved and in 1994, was "reactivated" into its
current incarnation: The Mid-Atlantic Society for Adolescent
Health. This Regional Chapter of the Society for Adolescent
Medicine serves Delaware, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Southern
New Jersey. Our 225 active members come from a wide variety
of medical and non-medical disciplines. Recruiting and maintaining
an interdisciplinary membership is considered a priority.
Our goals and objectives include:
- To foster communication among those concerned with Adolescent
Health.
- To develop and promulgate standards and recommendations
for adolescent health care.
- To develop educational programs.
- To improve the quality of and access to health care for
adolescents.
- To identify, investigate, and list opportunities for careers
in adolescent health.
Highlights of recent chapter activities include:
- In May, 2001 - We joined with St. Christopher's Hospital
and the Philadelphia Pediatric Society to welcome Dr. Iris
Litt, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adolescent Health
to Philadelphia for the Waldo Nelson Lecture in Pediatrics. Dr.
Litt's talk was entitled, "Adolescence - The Crossroads
Between Biology and Society." Following the lecture, several
Mid-Atlantic Chapter Members joined Dr. Litt and others
for dinner.
- The fall- 2001 education program was entitled "Mind, Body,
and Spirit: Preventative and Acute Needs of Children and
Adolescents." This two-day conference was held at the Lehigh
Valley Hospital. Several chapter members participated as
guest lecturers. The audience was very interested in adolescent
health and asked great questions about caring for teens.
- The spring - 2002 symposium, "Preparing Pediatricians
for Their Role in the Mental Health System," took place
on April 10, 2002 at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The
one-day symposium highlighted resident training in advocacy
for children and adolescents and provided a forum to discuss
different approaches to advocate for youth. This program
was sponsored by the Anne E. Dyson Community Pediatrics
Initiative and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Community-Based
Pediatrics and Advocacy Program (CPAP). Following the meeting,
the Mid-Atlantic Chapter attendees had a dinner meeting
to discuss future programs for the chapter. These include
a fall program for 2002 focusing on coding and billing procedures
for Adolescent Medicine. We are also beginning to plan our
spring 2003 chapter event on medical needs of adolescent
young women to be held in Hershey, Pa.
List Serve:
A listserve was created for our chapter at Topica. Thus far,
the listserve has been used mainly to post chapter events,
however, questions and discussions on adolescent topics would
be very welcome. To post a message on the Topica listserve
send an email to samlist@topica.com. The Topica website is:
www.topica.com. To subscribe to the Topica listserve, send
an email to samlist-subscribe@topica.com, or email our secretary
Nadja Peter at peter@email.chop.edu. For Mid-Atlantic Regional
Chapter membership information please contact: Nadja Peter
at the above email address.
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